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EY has a globally recognized portfolio of services that combine core advisory strengths in protecting and improving organizations' performance with deep capabilities in assurance, tax and transactions.

We are proud to be ranked #1 by HFS in its "HFS Top 10 RPA Service Providers 2018" report. EY was called out for its holistic approach to automation, recognized for developing use cases that demonstrate our focus on the industrialization of enterprise RPA; our change management expertise and the fact that we highly leverage RPA internally to inform client engagements. Finally, the fact that we are technology agnostic but have broad experience across third-party tools and a strong vision for our R&D were all driving factors contributing to our number 1 placement.

According to Forrester, one key element that differentiates EY’s innovation consulting offering is how it blends business, design, and advanced technology skills into collaborative teams. The report also cites EY’s “globally coherent offering,” and blend of diverse mindsets that enable breakthroughs and acceleration to scale: “What stands out in terms of EY’s innovation consulting capabilities is this blend of diverse mindsets that is at the core of how breakthroughs are generated and accelerated through to scale.”

EY recently held its Technology Analyst Summit in Toronto to provide some detail on its digital strategy and transformation capabilities, which are increasingly used internally as well as externally. 451’s report writes how the summit demonstrated how “EY Advisory is rapidly evolving its digital transformation capabilities in terms of building out product engineering and global service delivery to support the assets it is developing”.

Source: 451 Research “EY showcases the difference between doing digital and being digital"

At the EY Toronto wavespace™, EY hosted TBR and around 30 analysts for two days of executive‐level discussions, client briefings, and product and solution demonstrations by EY technology consulting professionals. In this report, TBR details how “EY consistently puts forward a practical, get-it-done message, reinforcing that the firm knows its clients’ business, knows technology, and can deliver immediate value beyond strategy and even beyond consulting”.

EY hosted its 2018 Technology Summit at one of its flagship wavespace innovation centers in Toronto, Canada to update industry analysts on recent strategic initiatives undertaken by EY’s technology consulting practice. ALM discusses in their report how the summit “highlighted how EY is adapting to a discernible trend change in client expectations for consultants to not only arrive with formed or semi-formed ideas and solutions that solve their commercial and operational problems but also to be able to collaborate with them in co-creating and activating solutions that result in measurable positive outcomes”.

At a Technology Analyst Summit held in Toronto, in one of the wavespace™ innovation hubs, EY provided an update on their technology vision, strategy and digital capabilities, including a range of actual customer engagements. PAC note in their blog post that EY is a strong contender in the market for digital transformation advisory: “Coming from a mainly management consulting background, EY has made significant progress in boosting its IT capabilities”.

EY has been investing heavily in partnerships and in automating our IP in ways that radically reduce ‘run the business’ IT costs while continuing to excel at ‘transform the business’ advisory engagements. TBR’s report on EY, details how we have deepened partnerships with technology providers such as SAP and Microsoft. In this way, EY can pull SAP and Microsoft into accounts where they have previously not had much visibility: “…these three working together in major accounts will give many of their competitors pause”.

Source: TBR Blog “EY, SAP and Microsoft: A powerful triad for the Business of One era”, Geoff Woollacott.

We are pleased to be recognized by the IDC MarketScape as a Leader Worldwide SAP Implementation Services Ecosystem 2018 Vendor Assessment.

According to the IDC MarketScape, "Buyers rate EY highly for its functional insights and competence and for providing sincere and trustworthy resources for a project. Similarly, IDC rates EY highly in terms of its employee management strategy and its pricing model strategy." The IDC MarketScape states that “Consider EY when the idea of business-led technology-enabled SAP implementation sounds like the right approach, as compared with a technology-led implementation.”

We are pleased to be recognised by the IDC MarketScape as a Leader in the Worldwide Business Analytics Consulting and Systems Integration Services 2018 Vendor Assessment.

According to the IDC MarketScape, "Buyers rate EY highly for its ability to meet project timelines and its ability to help achieve desired business outcomes. Similarly, IDC rates EY highly in terms of its offerings/functionality road map and productivity of its innovation/R&D." The IDC MarketScape states that “EY should also be on the short list for users if they need help for achieving desired business outcomes through an analytics C&SI services project.”

We are proud to be positioned as a leader in the HfS Blueprint Report: Internet of Things Services 2018 (April, 2018).

Our IoT platform, accelerates speed-to-insights by operationalizing analytics quickly and cost effectively on an analytics-as-a-service platform. By adding our capabilities around the behavioural aspects of analytics, it delivers scope and scale of analytics to clients.

EY wavespace is a global network of growth and innovation centers designed to help businesses navigate ‘the Transformative Age.’ By combining the experience of our global tax, accounting, advisory and transactions professionals with startup and disruptive innovation thinking, we are positioning ourselves for the digital future.

451 Research’s report on EY’s wavespace network notes how EY’s approach to digital business creates a more industrialized and enterprise-friendly digital capability that connects with our deep sector knowledge, regulatory and compliance experience.

Source: 451 Research article “EY wavespace combines the art of the possible with the realities of corporate life”, Katy Ring (April, 2018)

We are proud to named by HfS as a High Performer in its Artificial Intelligence Services Blueprint Grid (March 2018).

We have developed a strong reputation for driving RPA deployments with a transformational and end-to-end point of view. It has an alignment with the OneOffice concept by its partnership with TrustPortal and by leveraging a broad set of cognitive tools such as ABBYY and Arago’s Hiro for parsing, Workfusion and Azure Machine Learning Studio for machine learning, and big beasts like Watson for a broad set of services including virtual agents and chatbots.

We are pleased to be recognized by Gartner as a Leader for Data and Analytics Service Providers, Worldwide. EY are proud to confirm its strengths in this area lie in our rekindled strategic direction, industry analytical assets and platform solutions, and an extensive ecosystem collaboration.

Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Internet of Things service providers address a range of IoT services from upfront planning and solution architecture to deployment and integration. CIOs should use this Market Guide to evaluate and select IoT service providers able to bring IoT services that align with their digital business goals.

Source ID: G00315950, Gartner, January 2018

Gartner’s Market Guide for IoT Service Providers looks at medium and large service providers including EY, that are supporting key vertical markets for IoT adoption. EY’s IoT services operates with a deep vertical focus and utilises industry-specific expertise, data science and analytics knowledge within its IoT practice. EY’s 16 dedicated wavespaces also provides support for IoT innovation.

Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

We are proud to be positioned within the HfS Winner’s Circle for Enterprise Blockchain Services. EY was cited for our strengths in investment and commitment, end-to-end service, technology agnostic approach and ability to drive adoption beyond PoCs.

HfS Research also noted that EY was a “committed blockchain player with production-ready clients driven by end-to-end services and global blockchain expertise”. Other leading highlights include EY’s robust client base, broad industry coverage and experience across value chain.

As data and analytics become the centre of digital transformation, technology product marketing leaders must compete by taking an asset-based service approach and augmenting solutions with intelligent automation.

Gartner’s Competitive Landscape report provides competitive profiles on the data and analytics capabilities of a range of different service providers, including EY. EY embeds analytics across Advisory, using an issue-led and technology-enabled approach. We combine experience from EY member firms and our Global Analytics Center of Excellence to help clients gain new insight and navigate the digital world. EY has been expanding its analytics capabilities by actively building alliances, such as with Ebix, LinkedIn, John Hopkins University and GE.

Source: ID: G00327337, Gartner, June 2017

Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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